When you sponsor an animal for a month you will make a HUGE impact on the animal’s life by helping provide food, bedding and vet care. With your donation, you will receive a special downloadable certificate of sponsorship as well as a coupon for one free Sanctuary Stroll to be redeemed upon arrival. Come out and meet the animals you’ve sponsored—so they can thank you themselves!

Lucille arrived at IFS in the middle of the night. Unbeknownst to us, Lucille was “dumped” in front of our gates after dark. When we woke up in the morning, a neighbor informed us that our goose was on the loose. We were totally confused, since we didn’t have any geese living at the sanctuary. We went to investigate and found Lucille wandering in and out of traffic on the busy road in front of the sanctuary. It’s truly a wonder that she wasn’t hit and killed. 

After a bit of a struggle, we were eventually able to get Lucille inside the sanctuary gates, and after confirming that she is domestic and not wild, we decided to see how she would fit in with our ducks. Lucille definitely hadn’t been around cows, pigs, goats, and sheep before, because her first few hours were filled with fearful honking and posturing. The ducks were wary of Lucille at first because she’s very talkative and quite large in comparison to their petite size. But sure enough, by the end of her first day, Lucille was an honorary member of the Quack Pack and we knew she’d found her forever home with us.

Sadly, “dumping” animals at sanctuaries is a common practice. While some may do so with the hope of giving the animal a better life, the risks of dropping an animal off at a sanctuary unannounced are extremely high, as the animal could wander into the wilderness and become lost, be killed or wounded by a predator, or be killed or wounded by motor vehicles. We are so thankful that Lucille was unharmed and able to acclimate to life at the sanctuary. 

To gift this sponsorship to someone you love, see the instructions below.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: This sponsorship includes a certificate for download. No physical item will be shipped. You will automatically receive an order confirmation email, followed by an email containing a link to your certificate and information about your sponsored resident. You will then have 24 hours to open and download the sponsorship packet. You are welcome to print anything in the packet, or you may download it and send it to your gift recipient by email. The Sanctuary Stroll pass included with the download may only be used once.